George Schmid has elected to treat 'Decorata' as a cultivar which is
quite possibly a mutation from 'Decorata Normalis'. At one time the
name Thomas Hogg was associated with it, but this is no longer correct. It
is mildly stoloniferous and makes a clump 30 x 12" with 24" flower
scapes. The flowers are bell-shaped and purple. Grenfell describes the
leaves as medium, widely oval, a matt-surfaced middle-green, crisply
margined white, with the variegation extending down broadly winged
petioles. She also says that the plant can be difficult to grow but
responds to friable, peaty soil. It is known for its blunt-tipped rounded
leaves. Schmid says it was probably the first hosta to come to the U.S.
from Japan (1900).